This season actually ended a long time ago, probably as early as December, but Villa were finally put out of their misery as the curtain came down on the shocking 2015/2016 season.
It was a season of unprecedented failure in the history of the club
Villa finished an amazing 64 points behind Leicester City. Villa’s three wins in the whole season is what a decent team could have pulled off in just a week, if they had a mid-week game. It was a season of unprecedented failure in the history of the club.
The buck is very much at the feet of Lerner and his false messiah, Tom Fox. The ex-Villa CEO ultimately failed in his overhaul of the club, while Lerner sought a buyer. Unfortunately, Lerner was as good at selling a club, as he was at running one.
A massive overhaul is needed for this club to make it’s way back. To swing a club from winning only three games to one that will need to win a majority of games next season, will be no mean task. For starters, a new owner and manager need putting in place and the latest rumours of the past week don’t exactly fire-up much encouragement that we’re about to get some miracle workers.
While we continue to limp along in limbo, here’s five reasons to be cheerful as Aston Villa fans…
2. U21 Support
MOMS had a bit of a nightmare driving down from Birmingham for the U21 play-off final on Tuesday night and missed the first half due to traffic and alternate routes etc.
While we may have missed Villa’s only goal of the night, it was still worth the trip for just 45 minutes, mainly due to the 100+ Villans in the house who provided much entertainment.
While Robert Pires and Stilyan Petrov were also in audience, the most striking thing about the crowd was the average age of the Arsenal fans seemed to be about 12-years-old, judging by their squeaky voices (when they did sing).
The highlights from the travelling Villans were the continuous goading of Santi Cazorla for controversially being picked for such a game – “He’s 31, he’s 31, he’s 31” (which continued “He’s 32”, 33, 34, 35 before jumping to “He’s 65” and “He’s OAP” – and also one Villa supporter leading the rest in a rare outing of the full version of Holte Enders in the Sky.
As MOMS was leaving the Emirates, a young Arsenal fan and his mate came up to us to enthusiastically tell us that Villa fans were much better on the night than his fellow Arsenal fans (ala Sunday too). As a thanks, he got a MOMS ‘Have You Won the European Cup?’ sticker slapped on him to humour rolling on.
At least next season, we’ll have a break from 4-0 spankings in London at the hands of Arsenal (unless we get in the FA Cup final again). That is one positive from a season in the Championship.
Agreed, how you have managed to find inspiration to do it for the last 4 years is a miracle.
Something we need at the club pretty soon if villa want to stay in the championship let alone win it…
Great round up David. How you’ve done it for 5 seasons on the trot…amazing achievement, and so optimistic too! You’ve earned a break, more than anyone in the Villa squad….
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